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- catalog abstract "Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.".
- catalog contributor b2213944.
- catalog coverage "Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1988.".
- catalog date "1988".
- catalog date "c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1988.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. xxv-xxvii.".
- catalog description "Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. Yet each time Dana's sojourns become longer and more dangerous, until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.".
- catalog description "Introduction by Robert Crossley -- Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 264 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Kindred.".
- catalog identifier "0807083054".
- catalog isFormatOf "Kindred.".
- catalog isPartOf "Beacon paperbacks ; 786".
- catalog isPartOf "Black women writers series".
- catalog issued "1988".
- catalog issued "c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Kindred.".
- catalog spatial "Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 19".
- catalog subject "African American women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3552.U827 K5 1988".
- catalog subject "Slaveholders Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Slaves Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Time travel Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction by Robert Crossley -- Prologue -- The river -- The fire -- The fall -- The fight -- The storm -- The rope -- Epilogue.".
- catalog title "Kindred / Octavia E. Butler ; with an introduction by Robert Crossley.".
- catalog type "Psychological fiction.".
- catalog type "Science fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".